10 Best Times Star Wars Appeared In Other Movies
6. Star Trek (2009)
Star Wars and Star Trek have been closely intertwined for decades, with George Lucas once stating that Star Wars wouldn't exist if Star Trek hadn't "softened up the entertainment arena", and original Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz revealing that Trek was a big influence on Lucas when creating his own space-set franchise.
However, by the time lifelong Star Wars fans JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof were handed the keys to the Trek franchise for the 2009 movie reboot, the order of influence had changed, with Trek now drawing from the Star Wars movies that those two creatives had grown up revering.
Not only were two scenes in Star Trek 2009 (young Kirk staring at the under-construction Enterprise, and old Spock saving Kirk from a monster) intended to echo two scenes in the original Star Wars (Luke staring at the binary sunset, and Obi-Wan stopping the Tusken Raiders from attacking Luke), but a small piece of Star Wars also appears in the movie physically. Or at least, digitally, but you catch our drift.
This appearance comes in the form of none other than R2-D2, who can be seen floating through the wreckage of several Starfleet ships after the Enterprise emerges from warp. Artoo also pops up in sequel Star Trek Into Darkness in a similar manner, because apparently, appearing in the vast majority of Star Wars movies just wasn't enough for this attention-seeking droid.